Yonas Beyene is an Ethiopian archaeologist. He is known for his works on the Paleolithic archaeology of Konso and the

Middle Awash The Middle Awash is a paleoanthropological research area in the Afar Region along the Awash River in Ethiopia's Afar Depression. It is a unique natural laboratory for the study of human origins and evolution and a number of fossils of the earliest ...

, Ethiopia. Recently, he prepared the Nomination Files that eventually led to the registration of th
Konso Cultural Landscape
of southern Ethiopia in UNESCO's

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in 2011. He graduated from

Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle The French National Museum of Natural History, known in French as the ' (abbreviation MNHN), is the national natural history museum of France and a ' of higher education part of Sorbonne Universities. The main museum, with four galleries, is loc ...

, Paris, in 1991. He is a Program Director in th
Association for Research and Conservation of Culture
and a research affiliate of the French Center for Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Beyene, Yonas Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Ethiopian archaeologists